What motivates people to organize communal living themselves? What ideals are behind it, how do they finance themselves, and how does life in a community work? Based on six self-managed residential buildings in Austria from the past 40 years, the documentary film "Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind" (The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of) sets out to find answers. Filmmakers Lotte Schreiber and Michael Rieper tell these six stories by staying very close to the protagonists.
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...

Big Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years wh...

Minimalist documentary by Rax Rinnekangas about the wooden cottage "La Cabanon" designed and built i...
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas and wester...

Documentary about Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi made for the BBC series "Visions of Space".

Brazilian architecture in the 20th century influenced generations of architects worldwide. But there...

Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in...

No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master ...

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...